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Web Development with Julia and Genie

By : Ivo Balbaert, Adrian Salceanu
Book Image

Web Development with Julia and Genie

By: Ivo Balbaert, Adrian Salceanu

Overview of this book

Julia’s high-performance and scalability characteristics and its extensive number of packages for visualizing data make it an excellent fit for developing web apps, web services, and web dashboards. The two parts of this book provide complete coverage to build your skills in web development. First, you'll refresh your knowledge of the main concepts in Julia that will further be used in web development. Then, you’ll use Julia’s standard web packages and examine how the building blocks of the web such as TCP-IP, web sockets, HTTP protocol, and so on are implemented in Julia’s standard library. Each topic is discussed and developed into code that you can apply in new projects, from static websites to dashboards. You’ll also understand how to choose the right Julia framework for a project. The second part of the book talks about the Genie framework. You’ll learn how to build a traditional to do app following the MVC design pattern. Next, you’ll add a REST API to this project, including testing and documentation. Later, you’ll explore the various ways of deploying an app in production, including authentication functionality. Finally, you’ll work on an interactive data dashboard, making various chart types and filters. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build interactive web solutions on a large scale with a Julia-based web framework.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Part 1: Developing Web Apps with Julia
5
Part 2: Using the Genie Rapid Web Development Framework

Using cloud services with Julia

As a beginning web developer, you’ll start with the local development of a web or microservices application, and then progress to deploy the app to virtualized cloud environments. This section will tell you what cloud computing possibilities exist for Julia.

Deployment to cloud platforms

From the start, Julia was meant to be a language for distributed and cloud computing. Julia Computing, which is the company behind Julia, offers its own cloud computing solution named JuliaHub (https://juliahub.com/lp/) for academic and enterprise users. If you’re looking for an alternative to the former free JuliaBox site, consult https://github.com/xiaodaigh/awesome-data-science-notebook-engines.

All of the major commercial cloud providers support deploying Julia apps. The JuliaCloud website (https://github.com/JuliaCloud/) contains most of the packages needed in this space.

The following is a list of the major ones:

  • Amazon Web Services...